A collection of recipes from an ex-vegetarian, new additions at random points in time.

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Dumpling Soup

These (English) dumplings, which are basically just boiled bread, are a great way to liven up an soup and provide a great piece of substance to the soup. They also work great by just boiling them in salt water and serving them up with other food.

Ingredients:

500g self raising flour

250g suet or vegetarian suet

10 tablespoons of water (150ml)

3 sticks of celery, chopped

25g butter

4 carrots, chopped

10 leaves of pak choi, shredded

1 tablespoon coriander

1 tablespoon cumin

2 pints vegetable stock (or 2 pints water + 4 vegetable stock cubes)

2 pints of boiling water

Method:

Mix the flour, suet and 150ml of water into a dough and roll into 8 balls

Place the butter and celery in a big soup pan and fry the celery for 5 or 6 minutes

Add the carrots and pak choi and fry for a couple of minutes, stiring well

Add the cumin, coriander, stock and boiling water

Wait for the soup to come back to the boil

Place the dumplings carefully into the soup

After 5 minutes or so, carefully turn each dumpling

Wait another 5 minutes and turn the dumplings again

Finally just wait another 5 minutes and then serve the soup

Serves 5 or 6 people, although that will lead to fights over who has how many dumplings.